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Other species sometimes cultivated are the following plums : P. Simoni^ 

 P. cerasifera, P. Americana, P. augustifolia, P. Jiortulana ; the peach, P. 

 Persica ; and the apricot, P. Armeniaca. 



CANADA PLUM (wiLD OR HORSE plum). Prunus Americana nigra Waugh, P. 

 nigra Ait., P. Americana Marsh, in part, according to Gray's Manual. 



The Canada plum, found frequently 

 in Vermont, is a small tree or shrub, with 

 grayish-brown bark and short, spiny 

 branchlets. It may be recognized by its 

 broad coarse leaves, sometimes four 

 inches long and two or three inches wide. 

 The flowers are abundant, large and 

 strong, of a fine pinkish color, and ap- 

 pear about the first week in May. The 

 fruit, often an inch in diameter, ripens 

 in August. It is sometimes rather bitter, 

 but occasional trees bear good eatable 

 fruit. 



CANADA PLUM 

 Leaves, flowers and fruit, X ^^ . 



WILD RED CHERRY (bird CHERRY ). PruHUS Peunsylvanica Linn 



The wild red cherry, a small, slender tree, 

 is quite generally distributed from the rocky 

 woods of Newfoundland to North Carolina. It 

 is common in all parts of Vermont where it is 

 often only a roadside shrub. The flowers ap- 

 pear in May in beautiful white clusters on long 

 pedicels. The fruit, which ripens in midsum- 

 mer, is small and globular, becoming bright 

 red when mature. This tree is distinguished 

 from the other cherries by its slender and 

 more graceful form, by its lighter colored, close- 

 growing bark, often covered with transverse wild red cherry 

 scars (lenticels), by its small flower^^ in spread- Reaves, flowers and fruit, x <^j 

 ing clusters and by its very small globular fruit 

 similarly clustered. 



